loftiness
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The state or quality of being lofty.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two.
The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.
The incomprehensible richness and loftiness of the Divine Nature, its outpouring generosity toward all in common, fills a man with wonder.
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
The mountain is voiceless and imperturbable; and its very loftiness and serenity sometimes make us the more lonely.
Accordingly, a religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt of the significance and loftiness of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation. They exist with the same necessity and matter-of-factness as he himself.